Lubra

//ˈluːbɹə// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A female Aboriginal Australian. Australia, ethnic, slur

    "At about 100 yards distant I saw a large fire and it immediaterly occurred to me that his wife was dead and that the fire was the funeral pile of his deceased wife. I asked him where his lubra was and he said lubra logerna unee (dead in the fire)."

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abogingin

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"At about 100 yards distant I saw a large fire and it immediaterly occurred to me that his wife was dead and that the fire was the funeral pile of his deceased wife. I asked him where his lubra was and he said lubra logerna unee (dead in the fire)."

Etymology

Derived from the word for wife or woman in the Nuenonne language, an Indigenous language of southern Tasmania.

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